Thank you for your interest in requesting and managing a JiscMail mailing list. If your list meets our criteria, you'll join 10,000 list owners who manage over 10,000 mailing lists, and will be part of the biggest national academic mailing list service!
Who can have a JiscMail list?
JiscMail provides high quality educational email discussion lists to the UK education and research communities.
All new list requests are checked against the following criteria:
PURPOSE: The list should support learning, teaching, research or professional support activities across UK education and research
PEOPLE: At least 25% of the subscribers should be from UK Higher Education, Further Education Institutions, Research Communities, Educational Support Organisations or JISC funded projects and services
PRIMARY LIST OWNER: The primary list owner should be employed by one of the organisations listed above, and use the related email address.
PARTICIPATION: The subscribers of a list can be from single organisation, or across a range of organisations
Contact us to discuss your organisation's mailing list requirements (creating several new lists, or moving existing lists to JiscMail)
Additional information: JiscMail reserves the right to approve or reject a list application. Lists are created based on capacity within the mailing list system. JiscMail reserves the right to close any list which does not meet the current criteria. These criteria are routinely reviewed to ensure they reflect our funding, and the needs of the wider educational community (Last reviewed on 14 September 2020)
Service usage policy summary:
For all users
Be nice; your participation in JiscMail should be legal, relevant
and should not upset people
Don't subscribe others to JiscMail lists without their consent
Role of list owners:
In terms of GDPR, they are the data controller for their mailing list
Control the configuration of the list and make it clear to subscribers at all times
Monitor messages posted to the list and take action if necessary
Help members of the list and manage failed deliveries